Chapter 279: For the Greater Good
[You have killed the White Snake Sage. Obtained 2800 Dimension Points.]
*[You have obtained D-rank Singularity Point 1.]
[Part of the missions related to the White Snake Sage and Ryuchi Cave faction are being removed. Some mission lines will not be able to form a closed loop.]
A purple drop card condensed from beneath the massive white snake's head.
*[You have obtained a Drop Card (Purple) 1.]
[Satsui no Hado has leveled up. Current: Lv3 (1074/1200)]
Pfft~
Purple Satsui no Hado blazed once again on Kaito Shirogane's body surface. The color of that fluctuation was nearing red.
Kaito Shirogane could foresee that when Satsui no Hado broke through to LV4, perhaps this powerful ability would cross a boundary again. At that time, he might be directly swallowed by the Satsui no Hado, but simultaneously, his power would also break through the current threshold.
At least, by then, purely from the perspective of energy mastery, even without leveraging the soul power within him, just relying on the LV4 Satsui no Hado, that intensity of Ki would be completely sufficient to step into the [Strong] tier.
Kaito Shirogane pressed the massive remains of the white snake into the gap at the bottom of the Golden Erdtree. Scarlet Rot curses were scattered all around. Because that woman bloomed the Flower of Scarlet Rot, almost no grass grew within a two-kilometer radius.
If the Golden Erdtree hadn't already grown to over a thousand meters high, with underground roots extending unknown distances, perhaps the Golden Erdtree would also have been killed by this Scarlet Rot curse at this moment.
Squelch!
The headless massive remains of the White Snake Sage touched the roots of the Golden Erdtree. Intense golden glow began to emanate. Because the Greater Will hadn't descended yet, the concept of [Death] hadn't disappeared.
What the Golden Erdtree was doing now was almost like snatching "customers" from the Pure Land of this world, absorbing various intense life forces, and then distributing them in the form of blessings.
All who received the blessing of the Golden Erdtree would become subjects of the Golden Order. After these people died, they would no longer enter the Yellow Springs or the Pure Land but would return to the Golden Erdtree in the form of [Erdtree Burial], completing the cycle.
Intense life force was absorbed. The Golden Erdtree continued to sprout branches at a speed visible to the naked eye, extending higher and further into the sky. As the branches shook, the glow of the Golden Order constantly drifted in all directions.
Out of the corner of his eye, Kaito Shirogane saw that half of the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama's body, was already entangled by Scarlet Rot. The most disgusting part of this "filthy skill" was that once contaminated, no matter how strong the vitality, it would only eventually be dragged down.
Aside from actually dying once, very few powers could suppress it.
Senju Hashirama was in extremely poor condition at this moment. The thousand-meter-high giant Buddha statue collapsed. He clutched his forehead, the Scarlet Rot curse on his jaw constantly invading his mind.
Kaito Shirogane smiled wantonly and leisurely crushed the drop card.
Purple glow lingered on his fingertips.
[You have opened the Purple Drop Card: White Snake Sage.]
[You have obtained 3000 Dimension Points.]
[You have obtained Material: Dragon-Transforming Snake Head (Unique & Rare).]
[You have obtained Ability Scroll: Ryuchi Cave Senjutsu Cultivation Method (Purple).]
Perhaps because Kaito Shirogane had just killed the White Snake Sage with the [Shun Goku Satsu], triggering [Indeterminate Form of Luck] dozens or hundreds of times, his luck was extremely high at this moment.
Opening the drop card directly yielded two purple rewards. One was a material, and the other was a Senjutsu cultivation scroll.
Both were very precious hard currencies.
The Golden Erdtree continued to grow, and the wound corroded by Scarlet Rot was also healing. Before the wound was completely covered, Kaito Shirogane jumped into it lightly.
The moment he entered, he only saw an old and huge toad holding a young boy wearing the Uchiha clan's coat. The moment the giant toad saw Kaito Shirogane appear, it vanished along with the boy amidst smoke.
However, Kaito Shirogane still saw the clear golden luster in the opened eyes of that boy.
Uchiha Itachi protected Hana Hiranaka, following behind Minoru Hiranaka and Uchiha Shisui. The group, lagging slightly behind Mercenary Tao, also rushed back to the Land of Fire.
Uchiha Itachi's gaze seemingly inadvertently sized up Shisui and Minoru Hiranaka. Hana Hiranaka kept her head down, her emotions unclear.
Except for Orochimaru, who left the team midway to install Sharingan for himself, the atmosphere among the group of four was now quite weird, making Ran, who remained in this team, feel very strange.
The two who should clearly be a couple no longer spoke to each other. The two Uchihas, who were clearly like brothers, also spoke less and less.
For Reincarnators, there was rarely such a thing as "those who follow different paths cannot make plans together." All Reincarnators acted based on interests. Even the most violent and cruel Reincarnators would occasionally cooperate with those righteous and glorious Reincarnators.
But plot characters were different. At this moment, Ran clearly felt that this pair of brothers and the couple had developed irreconcilable contradictions due to the future of the [Golden Order].
He didn't know what happened, nor did he know if Mercenary Tao had been hit by Uchiha Shisui's[Kotoamatsukami]. But in his view, this temporary team was on the verge of collapse. He worried that at some unknown time, perhaps these two from the Uchiha clan would start infighting.
Ran secretly put something into the team space shared by him and Katherine to pass a message.
"Stop!"
Uchiha Shisui suddenly raised his right hand and spoke to stop the team from moving forward.
Ran hadn't realized what happened yet, but Uchiha Itachi had already taken two steps forward, activating his three-tomoe Sharingan, also looking at the human town below the ridge.
It was a small town built relying on superior geographical resources by a huge river.
Judging by the scale, the town's residents should exceed two thousand, much larger than the town where Minoru Hiranaka and Hana Hiranaka originally lived.
But at this moment, there was no sign of life in that town, only a large group of men and women with golden luster in their eyes, slaughtering silently.
These people held various things that couldn't be called weapons at all: hoes, sickles, stones, wooden sticks, even wine bottles and various jars.
They silently surrounded another group of terrified-looking people in the center of the town, and then constantly smashed down with their weapons.
A large amount of blood flowed out quickly. From the bloodstains elsewhere in the town, it could be seen that this was not the first place of murder. There were already large numbers of corpses lying everywhere.
"This is..."
Ran looked at this scene and quickly realized something. Not only him, although they didn't have intelligence on the [Golden Order], both Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi keenly realized something.
"They are killing... those who haven't joined the Golden Order..."
Uchiha Shisui's pupils trembled. This cruel scene shocked him greatly, especially those who, judging by their attire and faces, wouldn't fight at all—those old, weak, women, and children were now holding anything they could get their hands on that could take a life, silently and cold-bloodedly taking the lives of others.
Uchiha Shisui trembled uncontrollably. He was terrified by the golden luster in those people's eyes.
Precisely because they weren't holding weapons, precisely because they weren't people trained to take lives professionally, it terrified him so much.
Perhaps after the Golden Order truly descended, this world could escape the threat of death. But before that, these subjects of the Golden Order were being manipulated by some will to eliminate all non-subjects of the Golden Order!
"Shisui, is this the world you want..."
Uchiha Itachi watched this scene, terrifyingly calm. Hana Hiranaka also stared at her husband's eyes with a pale face.
Minoru Hiranaka's pupils trembled, but in the end, the golden luster became dazzling.
"For the greater good, for the future, for a future where no one will die, perhaps we indeed have no choice but to..."
Slap!
Minoru Hiranaka turned his face slightly. He saw his wife's hand was already bloody, her pale face flushed with an unhealthy red due to excessive agitation.
Hana Hiranaka simply couldn't believe that the person in front of her was still the warm man who once held a war orphan who had lost her relatives in the ruins, risking mission failure all the way to bring that little girl back.
"Minoru!"
"Here, there is no greater good, no future..."
"Only death, that's all."
The woman choked with sobs.
(End of Chapter)
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